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Sule Lamido, Jigawa state Governor on Tuesday said that the ruling Peoples Democratic Party, PDP will apologize to former President Olusegun Obasanjo who recently tore his party membership card and defected.
PUNCH reports that Lamido made the disclosure after a meeting with President Goodluck Jonathan at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.
Lamido said, ''when a father is angry with his children, the children should beg him.”
''Baba (Obasanjo) is more than a party man. He is an icon, a national symbol and a leader and an inventor, a creator of all the institutions today in Nigeria from the President to the governors who are his own sons, are all his creations.
''And so, when a father is angry with his own children, we will only say we are sorry to him. But then, we cannot be renounced for whatever it is. If you do any political DNA of our blood, you will find his (Obasanjo’s) blood in us. No matter what we are, we may not be able to live up to his expectations.
''We might have made some mistakes, but abandoning us is not the solution because the country is first before anything else. So, he is our Baba even up to the President. Baba is our baba no matter what. He is angry with us, but then, what do we do? He gave us the life at a time when Nigerians were fighting us, he stood for us. Since 2011, in 2007, he stood firm for us.
''He is our father. And so, if we made some mistakes, we are only human because we are heading human institutions. And I think by the time he reflects, how could he abandon his own children like that. Wherever we are, we are right in his heart. He feels for us, he cares for us.”
He however refused to state specifically if the PDP would ask Obasanjo to return to the party, ''When there is some kind of misunderstanding between a father and a child, you don’t go to NTA or any other media to say you are going to do this.
“I mean the bond between us is so strong. I know he is equally pained. I know what he is going through because he is our father, but I will not tell you the strategy because when he was producing us, you were not there, when he was making us, were you there?''
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PUNCH reports that Lamido made the disclosure after a meeting with President Goodluck Jonathan at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.
Lamido said, ''when a father is angry with his children, the children should beg him.”
''Baba (Obasanjo) is more than a party man. He is an icon, a national symbol and a leader and an inventor, a creator of all the institutions today in Nigeria from the President to the governors who are his own sons, are all his creations.
''And so, when a father is angry with his own children, we will only say we are sorry to him. But then, we cannot be renounced for whatever it is. If you do any political DNA of our blood, you will find his (Obasanjo’s) blood in us. No matter what we are, we may not be able to live up to his expectations.
''We might have made some mistakes, but abandoning us is not the solution because the country is first before anything else. So, he is our Baba even up to the President. Baba is our baba no matter what. He is angry with us, but then, what do we do? He gave us the life at a time when Nigerians were fighting us, he stood for us. Since 2011, in 2007, he stood firm for us.
''He is our father. And so, if we made some mistakes, we are only human because we are heading human institutions. And I think by the time he reflects, how could he abandon his own children like that. Wherever we are, we are right in his heart. He feels for us, he cares for us.”
He however refused to state specifically if the PDP would ask Obasanjo to return to the party, ''When there is some kind of misunderstanding between a father and a child, you don’t go to NTA or any other media to say you are going to do this.
“I mean the bond between us is so strong. I know he is equally pained. I know what he is going through because he is our father, but I will not tell you the strategy because when he was producing us, you were not there, when he was making us, were you there?''
#PDP #Obasanjo #Lamido #Jigawa